Lullabies: A Childhood Tradition!
Mama Goose and nursery rhymes are almost a rite of passage, but they are certainly a children’s tradition. Nursery rhymes can be recited in different languages and vary from country to country around the world, but there are some form of nursery rhymes present in all countries and cultures. There is no better theme to welcome a new baby into the world than a baby shower with a nursery rhyme!
For a simple nursery rhyme-themed invitation to your baby shower, purchase plain cardstock from an online source, a computer store, a party supply store, or a department store. On your home computer, print the cards with the graphic of cows jumping over the moon and print: “Hey, they skated, they birdied, the cat and the fiddle, and the cow jumped over the moon! Someone you know is going to have a baby soon! Jack Horner dug his thumb, pulled out a plum, we’re having a nursery rhyme baby shower, and it would be a shame you didn’t come! “Then, include all relevant information and send or personally deliver the invitation . You can also do something very similar and send the invitations by email!
National Mother Goose Day is May 1, but Mother Goose is timeless, and you can celebrate your own baby shower with nursery rhymes any time of the year! It’s easy to play nursery rhyme charades or Jeopardy, or have a nursery rhyme quiz. Do you remember what happened to Jack Sprat? What about little Miss Muffet? The winner can receive prizes for knowing the most curiosities and facts about children’s songs.
A nice and practical decoration for a nursery rhyme-themed baby shower is to open the disposable diapers, arrange them in a round shape, and tie them with a wire-edged ribbon to form the base layer of a diaper “cake.” The second level should be the smallest and the third level should be the smallest. Laid one on top of the other, each tied with the wire-edged ribbon (blue for a boy, pink for a girl, or bright yellow for either) to form bows, and it looks like a mock cake, and it’s functional too. Every newcomer needs diapers! You can hang printed nursery rhymes or place nursery rhyme pictures on the folded diapers, leaving them peeking out, to add more to the nursery rhyme theme.
You can use a baby bathtub as a punch bowl. You can float a plastic cup with three tiny figures in it to “Rub a dub, dub, three men in a tub.” Serve a cake marked with a “B” and “Pat a Cake, Pat a Cake” written across the top.
When it comes to creating a nursery rhyme theme baby shower, get creative and use characters from as many rhymes as you can. Everyone present will enjoy remembering the nursery rhymes from their childhood.